Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the North West region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank292619
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-7
Matching contract IT job ads11799227
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West5.159 %4.346 %5.738 %
As % of the Programming Languages category16.53 %13.67 %18.65 %
Daily rates quoted503171
Average daily rate£344£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.780 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£264£205£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£325£363
% change year-on-year
+4.610 %-10.34 %
Hourly rates quoted236
Average hourly rate£29.25£32.50£32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00 %+0.770 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.65£17.35£23.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.85£37.50£44.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-7.690 %-7.140 %
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7087241217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West31.22 %31.78 %30.76 %
Daily rates quoted293169236
Average daily rate£275£325£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38 %+1.560 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£200£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£388£450£433
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted5691124
Average hourly rate£22.50£30.00£28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00 %+5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£16.05£15.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£35.00£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
Java EnglandJava
England

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North West Java Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java across the North West region.

North West Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java across the North West region.

North West Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Java Hourly Rate Histogram

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CheshireUp+649£363+3.57 %
ManchesterDown-2326£301-19.66 %
MerseysideUp+56£350-20.00 %
LancashireUp+114£265-
Java EnglandJava
England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Java.

157 (28.50 %)J2EE
256 (28.00 %)Oracle
351 (25.50 %)HTML
449 (24.50 %)WebSphere
545 (22.50 %)Finance
545 (22.50 %)XML
644 (22.00 %)CSS
743 (21.50 %)JavaScript
841 (20.50 %)SQL
940 (20.00 %)Web Services
940 (20.00 %)E-Commerce
1039 (19.50 %)Hibernate
1136 (18.00 %)UNIX
1234 (17.00 %)JSP
1333 (16.50 %)Spring
1426 (13.00 %)Agile Software Development
1525 (12.50 %)Struts
1525 (12.50 %)Mainframe
1624 (12.00 %)Windows
1723 (11.50 %)Linux
1723 (11.50 %)IBM
1822 (11.00 %)JUnit
1921 (10.50 %)Servlets
1921 (10.50 %)AJAX
2020 (10.00 %)JBoss
2119 (9.500 %)Apache
2119 (9.500 %)jQuery
2119 (9.500 %)Security Cleared
2218 (9.000 %)JDBC
2317 (8.500 %).NET

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Java also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
157 (28.50 %)J2EE
251 (25.50 %)HTML
349 (24.50 %)WebSphere
445 (22.50 %)XML
544 (22.00 %)CSS
640 (20.00 %)Web Services
739 (19.50 %)Hibernate
834 (17.00 %)JSP
933 (16.50 %)Spring
1025 (12.50 %)Struts
1121 (10.50 %)Servlets
1121 (10.50 %)AJAX
1219 (9.500 %)jQuery
1318 (9.000 %)JDBC
1417 (8.500 %).NET
1513 (6.500 %)XSL
1513 (6.500 %)JSTL
1513 (6.500 %)Struts2
1612 (6.000 %)XSLT
1711 (5.500 %)SOAP
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
119 (9.500 %)Apache
214 (7.000 %)Tomcat
38 (4.000 %)CICS
38 (4.000 %)JCAPS
47 (3.500 %)ESB
56 (3.000 %)IIS
56 (3.000 %)WebSphere Application Server
56 (3.000 %)Jetty
65 (2.500 %)ATG Dynamo
74 (2.000 %)CMS
83 (1.500 %)WebSphere Message Broker
83 (1.500 %)WebLogic
92 (1.000 %)MS Exchange
92 (1.000 %)Oracle HTTP Server
92 (1.000 %)Tuxedo
92 (1.000 %)IBM HTTP Server
92 (1.000 %)Exchange Server 5.5
92 (1.000 %)Exchange Server 2000
92 (1.000 %)Exchange Server 2003
92 (1.000 %)WebSphere Portal
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (4.000 %)MS Visio
23 (1.500 %)MS Excel
31 (0.500 %)MS Office
31 (0.500 %)Photoshop
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.500 %)Oracle iStore
11 (0.500 %)Oracle Applications
11 (0.500 %)Oracle 11i
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (4.500 %)HTTP
28 (4.000 %)Internet
35 (2.500 %)WAN
42 (1.000 %)LDAP
42 (1.000 %)TCP/IP
42 (1.000 %)SSL
42 (1.000 %)SAN
42 (1.000 %)Firewall
51 (0.500 %)Intranet
51 (0.500 %)SNA
51 (0.500 %)Ethernet
51 (0.500 %)ADSL
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (7.000 %)SQL Server
28 (4.000 %)Oracle 10g
37 (3.500 %)MySQL
46 (3.000 %)Oracle Reports
53 (1.500 %)Oracle 11g
53 (1.500 %)SQL Server Integration Services
62 (1.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
62 (1.000 %)DB2
71 (0.500 %)SQL Server 2005
71 (0.500 %)Oracle 9i
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (11.00 %)JUnit
210 (5.000 %)Maven
39 (4.500 %)Ant
47 (3.500 %)Selenium
47 (3.500 %)FitNesse
56 (3.000 %)Subversion
65 (2.500 %)WebDriver
74 (2.000 %)Eclipse
82 (1.000 %)Visual Studio
82 (1.000 %)Log4j
82 (1.000 %)Introscope
82 (1.000 %)JIRA
91 (0.500 %)Oracle APEX
91 (0.500 %)Oracle Forms
91 (0.500 %)WinRunner
91 (0.500 %)TestDirector
91 (0.500 %)QuickTest Pro
91 (0.500 %)LoadRunner
91 (0.500 %)PowerBuilder
91 (0.500 %)ClearQuest
North West IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
145 (22.50 %)Finance
216 (8.000 %)Banking
311 (5.500 %)Retail
410 (5.000 %)Financial Institution
54 (2.000 %)Government
63 (1.500 %)Marketing
63 (1.500 %)Insurance
63 (1.500 %)Health
72 (1.000 %)Retail Banking
81 (0.500 %)International Banking
81 (0.500 %)Local Government
81 (0.500 %)Telecoms
81 (0.500 %)Criminal Justice
81 (0.500 %)Publishing
81 (0.500 %)Education
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1101 (50.50 %)Developer
249 (24.50 %)Java Developer
330 (15.00 %)Analyst
419 (9.500 %)J2EE Developer
518 (9.000 %)Java/J2EE Developer
614 (7.000 %)Architect
713 (6.500 %)Designer
812 (6.000 %)Business Analyst
911 (5.500 %)Test Analyst
1010 (5.000 %)Infrastructure Specialist
119 (4.500 %)Solutions Architect
119 (4.500 %)Systems Analyst
128 (4.000 %)Consultant
128 (4.000 %)Senior Developer
128 (4.000 %)Oracle Developer
128 (4.000 %)Technical Leader
128 (4.000 %)Agile Test Analyst
137 (3.500 %)Applications Support
137 (3.500 %)Business Systems Analyst
145 (2.500 %)Technical Test Analyst
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
125 (12.50 %)Mainframe
215 (7.500 %)IBM Mainframe
33 (1.500 %)Computer Science
33 (1.500 %)Cryptography
33 (1.500 %)IVR
42 (1.000 %)Blackberry
42 (1.000 %)Thin Client
42 (1.000 %)Web 2.0
42 (1.000 %)Tandem
42 (1.000 %)Fat Client
51 (0.500 %)iPhone
51 (0.500 %)Open Source
51 (0.500 %)PKI
51 (0.500 %)Smartphone
51 (0.500 %)AS400
51 (0.500 %)Chip and PIN
51 (0.500 %)NHS
51 (0.500 %)HACMP
51 (0.500 %)N-Tier
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
136 (18.00 %)UNIX
224 (12.00 %)Windows
323 (11.50 %)Linux
413 (6.500 %)AIX
54 (2.000 %)zOS
63 (1.500 %)Red Hat Linux
72 (1.000 %)Windows Server 2003
72 (1.000 %)Solaris
72 (1.000 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (0.500 %)Android
81 (0.500 %)Windows 2000
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
140 (20.00 %)E-Commerce
226 (13.00 %)Agile Software Development
313 (6.500 %)UML
412 (6.000 %)OO
510 (5.000 %)Web Development
68 (4.000 %)TOGAF
77 (3.500 %)TDD
77 (3.500 %)Business Analysis
77 (3.500 %)Software Testing
86 (3.000 %)Scrum
86 (3.000 %)BPEL
95 (2.500 %)Test Automation
104 (2.000 %)SOA
104 (2.000 %)RAD
104 (2.000 %)Workflow
104 (2.000 %)Enterprise Architecture
104 (2.000 %)Content Management
104 (2.000 %)Integration Testing
113 (1.500 %)MVC
113 (1.500 %)RUP
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
143 (21.50 %)JavaScript
241 (20.50 %)SQL
317 (8.500 %)C
412 (6.000 %)Shell Script
511 (5.500 %)C#
511 (5.500 %)PL/SQL
68 (4.000 %)C++
75 (2.500 %)Jython
84 (2.000 %)Python
84 (2.000 %)Perl
84 (2.000 %)VB
93 (1.500 %)VB.NET
93 (1.500 %)PHP
102 (1.000 %)T-SQL
102 (1.000 %)VBScript
111 (0.500 %)Groovy
111 (0.500 %)VB6
111 (0.500 %)Ruby
111 (0.500 %)Objective-C
111 (0.500 %)VBA
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
119 (9.500 %)Security Cleared
217 (8.500 %)SC Cleared
36 (3.000 %)ISEB
45 (2.500 %)BC Cleared
45 (2.500 %)ISTQB
52 (1.000 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (0.500 %)Oracle Certification
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (2.500 %)SLA
24 (2.000 %)HL7
North West IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.500 %)Active Directory
11 (0.500 %)MSMQ
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (2.500 %)Tivoli
22 (1.000 %)MIIS
22 (1.000 %)CA Wily
31 (0.500 %)Tivoli Monitoring
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
156 (28.00 %)Oracle
223 (11.50 %)IBM
320 (10.00 %)JBoss
410 (5.000 %)Microsoft
57 (3.500 %)ATG
57 (3.500 %)Sun
65 (2.500 %)Informatica
65 (2.500 %)TIBCO
74 (2.000 %)FileNet
83 (1.500 %)Red Hat
83 (1.500 %)SeeBeyond
92 (1.000 %)Chordiant
92 (1.000 %)BMC
92 (1.000 %)Lotus
92 (1.000 %)BEA
92 (1.000 %)FatWire
92 (1.000 %)BladeLogic
101 (0.500 %)Metastorm
101 (0.500 %)SAP
101 (0.500 %)Nokia